WIP XVII - Works In Progress

Date/Time

11/21/2021

Location

Northampton Community Arts Trust (33 Hawley Street Northampton, MA 01060)

WIP XVII - WORKS IN PROGRESS

November 21, 2021 at 4:30pm

In Person at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA in the Workroom Studio Theater

MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED FOR ALL

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The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought presents WIP (works-in-progress), a performance series that showcases developing movement-based works on Sunday afternoons. WIP values sharing research and experimentation, rather than presenting finished works, and welcomes applications from emerging and established artists.

The curatorial team choosing WIP choreographers is composed of fellow dance artists located in the Pioneer Valley. We are looking to create performances showcasing a diverse range of established and emerging artists, as well as those local to the valley and beyond.

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November 21st Artists:

Louis DeVaughan Nelson aka DeVO (NY)

Mia Martelli (NY)

Nona Monahin (MA)

Kate Tarlow Morgan (NY0

Cat Wagner and Kelly Silliman (MA)

Nona Monahin is a scholar-practitioner interested in the relationships between dance and music. She has a Ph.D. in musicology with a focus on dance, and many years of practical experience in various dance forms, including ballet, modern, renaissance and baroque, Duncan, and Russian character dance. Nona teaches historical dance in the Five College Early Music Program at Mount Holyoke College, and has presented lectures and workshops on dance and music in the United States, Canada, Europe, and her native Australia. She has choreographed for many Shakespeare plays and other historical productions, but above all she enjoys making dances in her own eclectic style, which encompasses the serious, whimsical, humorous, and at times absurd, but is almost always informed by the music. Nona formed “Another Dance Group” in 2021, for dancers of diverse ages and dance backgrounds who are interested in exploring the limitless possibilities of music-inspired choreography

Kate Tarlow Morgan, dancer, writer, teacher, archivist, is editor of Currents Journal of the Body-Mind Centering Association, co-founder of the Somatic Writing Collective Series and consulting editor of Lost and Found: Poetics Document Initiative (C.U.N.Y). Kate, a certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and The Rhythms Fundamentals©, has created a synergistic approach to the body through natural movement, choreographic practices and writing. ~ “Drawing from the Basic Neurocellular Patterns that engage the nervous system’s relationship to gravity, this dance-with-words speaks to the physical phenomenon called proprioception. The project started 45 years ago with a poem called Proprioception, by American Poet, Charles Olson. I carried this poem around with me, dog-eared it, re-visiting over and over the potent, embodied language that spoke to me on both physical and metaphysical levels. What you will hear are my words, except for “the universe flowing in” – that belongs to the poet.”

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